How Porcelain Dolls Became the Ultimate Victorian Status Symbol
Source: Smithsonian
Twentieth-century porcelain dolls made by German company Armand Marseille Photo by DeAgostini / Getty Images I like to imagine the voyage of a single porcelain doll I owned as a kid. Her head was made in Armand Marseille’s factory in Thuringia, Germany. Her face, maybe 1 of 1,000 made that day, was produced using the same numbered mold as all of her sisters’. Then her head was strung together with a composition…